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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I understand that. I am asking two questions. What women want to know is not the process used by the professionals. I know it is important but that is not the question they are asking. They are asking experts like Dr. Regan, whom we can trust, whether there is any evidence that the screening they have been provided with is substandard. The HSE has said there is none. In fact, the HSE...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I am sorry to cut across, but in the interests of time-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I want to ask about that because this made the front page of one of the newspapers as evidence that the laboratories were not as good in the USA. I brought this directly to an expert.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: We do. Laboratory B is in the Coombe. The other two are the US laboratories.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: We know laboratory B is in the Coombe and we know the two US labs are laboratories A and C. I took the figure of abnormalities detected directly to an expert because it was on the front page of one of our national newspapers cited as evidence that the US laboratories were not as good. The expert said that was nonsense. He said laboratory B, which is in the Coombe, is showing a higher...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Can Ms Culliton say that again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Can I ask Mr. O'Mahony about that because he makes a very important point? We put this to both the HSE and the Department of Health and the impression from what they told us was they were not terribly impressed with the analysis. What they told us, which we did not have time to get into in more detail, was that the testing and the samples being used were non-comparable and that the 1.8% and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: On the issue of the 1.2% versus the 1.8%, because the Chief Medical Officer, who is the clinical director of the HSE, and various other people refute the comparison, does Mr. O'Mahony stand over that comparison?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. O'Mahony. Do I have time for one more question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for their contributions/This entire episode has been marked by tragedy and misinformation. There is a widespread misunderstanding among many people as to what has happened. There are three issues, the first of which relates to the laboratories. Some people believe that the US laboratories have been less accurate but the data do not back that up. However, we should...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Within the committee, when we refer to a "clinician", we are typically talking about doctors, nurses or registered physiotherapists but people who are clinically trained and registered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: The reason I sought clarity was because Deputy Louise O'Reilly explicitly asked whether clinicians were involved. She was told "No" by the witnesses. The Minister at the time not only said that clinicians were involved but that the scheme was clinically-led and then went on to essentially identify the clinicians who were involved. I have sat through weeks of misinformation being put into...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Were clinicians involved in the process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: It has been said that a political decision was made. An independent group, the cancer screening service, with an independent board, was legally in charge of this process and brought in an international expert group that was involved in accreditation, and they ran it. I would imagine that the contract documents flowed through them and so forth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Mr. Casey has said that it was a political decision. Is he alleging that there was political interference in an independent process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I do not say that Mr. Casey is wrong but it is an important allegation that will be picked up on nationally and, potentially, in the Dáil. It has been established and verified that there was an independent process with an independent board, and an expert group brought in. None of us is contesting those facts. If the witness is saying there was no political interference in that process,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: To be clear-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I am looking for clarification from Mr. Casey. There was either political interference or there was not. Mr. Casey cannot assert that there was no political inference in an independent process but that it was still a political decision. He cannot maintain both of those positions. There was either political interference or there was not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: It is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: To be clear on this-----